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Surviving Progress

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2011-11-041h 26m

Documentary

Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

Humanity’s ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, “A Short History Of Progress” inspired “Surviving Progress”, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by “progress traps”—alluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future. As pressure on the world’s resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt nations, can our globally-entwined civilization escape a final, catastrophic progress trap? With potent images and illuminating insights from thinkers who have probed our genes, our brains, and our social behaviour, this requiem to progress-as-usual also poses a challenge: to prove that making apes smarter isn’t an evolutionary dead-end.

Directors
Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks
Writters
Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks
Editors
Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks, Louis-Martin Paradis

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  1. Stephen Hawking

    Stephen Hawking

    Self

  2. David Suzuki

    David Suzuki

    Self

  3. Jane Goodall

    Jane Goodall

    Self

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
$108,640.00
Keywords
chinabased on novel or booktechnologyoverpopulationeconomybusinesseconomicsecologysouth americaenvironmentalenvironmentenvironmentalismchimpanzeedeforestationrainforesteconomic crisisenvironmental issuepopulation explosion